990916; Radev, Columbia Univ, Computational Linguistics, FAQ

Dragomir R. Radev
Columbia University

September 16, 1999

Newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-lang,comp.ai,comp.answers,news.answers

Subject: Natural Language Processing FAQ

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Summary:

This posting contains Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about natural language processing and their answers. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the comp.ai.nat-lang newsgroup.

Last-Modified: Thu Sep 16 10:48:58 EDT 1999

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This is the latest release of an FAQ (frequently asked questions and answers) list for the comp.ai.nat-lang newsgroup. Please don't hesitate to send me any comments, be they positive or negative. There are many blank spots in the FAQ, please help fill them.

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Many people have contributed to this FAQ. A list of credits is shown at the end of the message.

TABLE OF CONTENTS =================

[1] What is this FAQ all about
[2] What is Computational Linguistics
[3] What is comp.ai.nat-lang
[4] How to get updates to this FAQ
[5] World-Wide Web resources.
[6] Which schools offer graduate programs in CL/NLP
[7] How to apply to graduate school in CL/NLP in the USA
[9] Major non-academic research laboratories
[10] What major publications exist in the field
[11] Bibliographies
[12] Electronic mailing lists
[13] Newsgroups
[14] Professional Organizations, Associations
[15] Major Conferences
[16] Evaluation Competitions
[17] How to join a mailing list
[18] How to obtain files by anonymous ftp
[19] FTP repositories
[20] What are some important books in NLP
[21] Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
[22] Machine Translation
[23] What are the major accomplishments of the field
[24] Publishers
[25] Credits

Disclaimers and Notes

1. Please read this FAQ list before posting to comp.ai.nat-lang

2. The FAQ is a collection of materials, rather than a complete reference. Some of the information may be out of date, so please be careful and take everything with a grain of salt. The maintainer, Dragomir R. Radev (radev@cs.columbia.edu), doesn't assume any responsibility for wrong information. The list of contributors to the FAQ appears at the end of this document.

3. Any comments, contributions, and corrections are more than welcome. Please help make the FAQ really helpful and interesting.

[1] What is this FAQ all about

This is an attempt to put together a list of frequently (and not so frequently) asked questions about Natural Language Processing and their answers. This document is in no way perfect or complete or 100% accurate. In no way should the maintainer be responsible for damage resulting directly or indirectly from using information in this FAQ.

The FAQ originated from Mark Kantrowitz's FAQ on AI. Some questions in the present document come directly from Mark's original FAQ (available at at http://www.faqs.org).

This FAQ is maintained by Dragomir R. Radev from Columbia University. Please send me all your comments, suggestions, corrections, additions, and such to my e-mail address:

radev@cs.columbia.edu *

[2] What is Computational Linguistics

Computational linguistics (CL) is a discipline between linguistics and computer science which is concerned with the computational aspects of the human language faculty. It belongs to the cognitive sciences and overlaps with the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is aiming at computational models of human cognition. There are two components of CL: applied and theoretical.

The applied component of CL is more interested in the practical outcome of modelling human language use. The goal is to create software products that have some knowledge of human language. Such products are urgently needed for improving human-machine interaction since the main obstacle in the interaction beween human and computer is one of communication. Today's computers do not understand our language, and humans have difficulties understand the computer's language, which does not correspond to the structure of human thought.

Natural language interfaces enable the user to communicate with the computer in German, English or another human language. Some applications of such interfaces are database queries, information retrieval from texts and so-called expert systems. Current advances in recognition of spoken language improve the usability of many types of natural language systems. Communication with computers using spoken language will have a lasting impact upon the work environment, opening up completely new areas of application for information technology.

Although existing CL programs are far from achieving human ability, they have numerous possible applications. Even if the language the machine understands and its domain of discourse are very restricted, the use of human language can increase the acceptance of software and the productivity of its users.

Much older than communication problems between human beings and machines are those between people with different mother tongues. One of the original goals of applied computational linguistics was fully automatic translation between human languages. From bitter experience scientists have realized that they are far from achieving this. Nevertheless, computational linguists have created software systems which can simplify the work of human translators and clearly improve their productivity.

The future of applied computational linguistics will be determined by the growing need for user-friendly software. Even though the successful simulation of human language competence is not to be expected in the near future, computational linguists have numerous immediate research goals involving the design, realization and maintenance of systems which facilitate everyday work, such as grammar checkers for word processing programs.

Theoretical CL takes up issues in formal theories. It deals with formal theories about the linguistic knowledge that a human needs for generating and understanding language. Today these theories have reached a degree of complexity that can only be managed by employing computers. Computational linguists develop formal models simulating aspects of the human language faculty and implement them as computer programmes. These programmes constitute the basis for the evaluation and further development of the theories. In addition to linguistic theories, findings from cognitive psychology play a major role in simulating linguistic competence.

Within psychology, it is mainly the area of psycholinguistics that examines the cognitive processes constituting human language use.

The special attraction of computational linguistics lies in the combination of methods and strategies from the humanities, natural and behavioural sciences, and engineering.

[3] What is comp.ai.nat-lang

Here follows the original charter for comp.ai.nat-lang.

Name: comp.ai.nat-lang

Moderation: This group will be unmoderated.

Purpose:

To discuss issues relating to natural language, especially computer-related issues from an AI viewpoint. The topics that will be discussed in this group will concentrate on, but are not limited to, the following:

* Natural Language Understanding
* Natural Language Generation
* Machine Translation
* Dialogue and Discourse Systems
* Natural Language Interfaces
* Parsing
* Computational Linguistics
* Computer-Aided Language Learning

This group will avoid discussing issues that are more properly covered by other newsgroups. For example, speech synthesis should be discussed in comp.speech. However, due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, there may be overlap in material between other groups. To try to keep this to a minimum, topics should pertain to computer-related aspects of natural language.

Rules of Decorum:

Because of the unmoderated format, anyone with access to this newsgroup will be able to post without review. This is meant to encourage discussion of the topics. Please refrain from "flames" or unnecessary criticism of a person's viewpoints or personality in a harsh or insulting manner. Criticisms should constructive and polite whenever possible.

[4] How to get updates to this FAQ
This FAQ is available currently from the following newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-lang, comp.answers, comp.ai, and news.answers It is posted once a month although updates are made less often.

The official archive of the above newsgroups is at MIT. You can get a copy of the FAQ from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/ai/nat-lang

Another major site with lots of FAQs (including this one) is http://www.faqs.org

The current copy can also be retrieved from the following URL: http://www.aclweb.org/faq/nlpfaq.txt

[5] World-Wide Web resources.
GENERAL RESOURCES AND CATALOGS

1. The Association for Computational Linguistics site: http://www.aclweb.org

The Association for Computational Linguistics is the major international organization in the field.

2. The ACL NLP/CL Universe: http://www.aclweb.org/u/db/acl/

The largest index of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing resources on the Web. It features a search engine which should allow you to find specific NLP-related Web pages.

3. The Computation and Language E-Print Archive http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs/

The Computation and Language E-Print Archive is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for papers on computational linguistics, natural-language processing, speech processing, and related fields.

4. The Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/HLTsurvey/

This book surveys the state of the art of human language technology. The goal of the survey is to provide an interested reader with an overview of the field---the main areas of work, the capabilities and limitations of current technology, and the technical challenges that must be overcome to realize the vision of graceful human computer interaction using natural communication skills.

5. The Linguistic Data Consortium

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution.

6. The Language Technology Helpdesk

http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/faq/index.html

Frequently-asked questions of the Human Communication Research Centre at U. Edinburgh.

RESOURCES ON DIFFERENT TOPICS

7. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

http://julius.ling.ohio-state.edu/HPSG/Hpsg.html

The HPSG offers current information relating to various aspects of the grammar formalism and linguistic theory of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, a constraint-based, lexicalist approach to grammatical theory that seeks to model human languages as systems of constraints on typed feature structures.

8. Lexical Functional Grammar

http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/

This site provides access to information about various aspects of the grammatical theory known as Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG).

9. Word Grammar

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/Word-Grammar/wig-www.htm

This site houses publications on Word-Grammar and has some information on the group and its meetings.

[6] Which schools offer graduate programs in CL/NLP
This list is, *of course*, completely preliminary. Please send me information about other programs. I will try and get in touch with the editors of the ACL guide to Graduate Programs in CL for more information. Universities are given in alphabetical order. If a certain university is not included now and you feel it must be included, please send me some information about it.

Australia:

Melbourne, University of
Microsoft Institute of Advanced Software Technology in association with Macquarie University

Canada:

Montreal, University of
Ottawa, University of
Simon Fraser University
Toronto, University of
Waterloo, University of

Finland:

Helsinki, University of

France:

Paris 7, Jussieu, University of

Germany:

Bonn, University of
Heidelberg, University of
Humboldt University, Berlin
Koblenz-Landau, University of
Munich, University of
Osnabrueck, University of
Saarland, University of the
Potsdam, University of
Stuttgart, University of
Tuebingen, University of

Italy:

Pisa, University of
Trento, University of

Japan:

Kyoto University

Korea:

Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang

Netherlands:

Amsterdam, University of
Groningen, University of
Nijmegen, University of
Tilburg, University of
Utrecht, University of

Sweden:

Goteborg (Gothenburg), University of
Skoevde, University of
Uppsala, University of

Switzerland:

Geneva, University of
Zurich, University of

UK:

Brighton, University of
Cambridge, University of
Durham, University of
Essex, University of
Edinburgh, University of
Sheffield, University of
Sussex, University of
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

USA:

Brown University
Buffalo, SUNY at
California at Berkeley, University of
California at Los Angeles, University of
Carnegie-Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Delaware, University of
Duke University
Georgetown University
Georgia, University of
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts at Amherst, University of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan, University of
New Mexico State University
New York University
Pennsylvania, University of
Rochester, University of
Southern California, University of
Stanford University
SUNY, Buffalo
Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of
Yale University

[7]How to apply to graduate school in CL/NLP in the USA
Usually, the best timetable is as follows (given that M is the month when your studies would start, usually, in September)

M - 24 :

Try to clarify your interests: is it really NLP that you are interested in? What possible subfields might be of interest to you? ...etc.

Remember:

5 years working in an area you are not interested in will be a very painful experience.

M - 18 :

Read publications in the area of your interest in order to discover the best places for you. Pay close attention to the specific fields of research: which professors are most active in those fields, and which institutions.

Remember:

Unless you are familiar with the most current research, you will not be able to find the best place for you.

M - 18 :

Go to your local library and consult some of the available directories (see [3-3]) - write down as much information as you can about some 15-25 universities. These universities form your preliminary list.

Remember:

There are some 100 universities in the USA offering NLP/CL programs. Some of them will be more attractive to you than others.

M - 18 :

Talk to your advisers at school, talk to other students, post questions on the Internet, visit departmental Web sites. This way you will get advice on a few more univer- sities that you might have skipped until this moment.

Remember:

Others have faced what you are going through. Use their experience.

M - 15 :

Send letters to the universities that you have on your preliminary list. Make sure you indicate when do you want to start, what degree (MA, MS, Ph.D.) you are interested in, whether or not you will be applying for financial aid, whether you will need some special visa...

Remember:

Ask for all the information that you need; give them all the information they'd need to satisfy your request.

M - 12 :

Read carefully the information that you have received from the universities. Shorten your list of places to the number that you will eventually apply to (usually 5-8 is a good number).

Remember:

Make sure you include both your best choice schools and some places where you are almost certain of getting accepted.

M - 10 :

Fill in all the forms that are sent to you, ask your professors to send reference letters to the schools directly.

Remember:

Professors will probably be very busy. Give them the reference forms as early as possible and make sure you specify a reasonable time for them to fill them in and send them out.

M - 10 :

(or earlier) - take the necessary tests (GRE, TOEFL, or others) that the schools want. Make sure you tell the testing service which universities you want them to send your scores to.

Remember:

tests. The GRE General test, for example, is more about mastery of timing than knowledge.

M - 9 :

(approximately) - mail your forms to the schools, preferably 2-3 weeks before the deadlines.

Remember:

You don't want your applications to get there at the same time as everyone else. Give the admissions committee some extra time to review your application.

M - 6 :

usually six months before the beginning of the semester that you are applying for, you will get a letter saying whether you have been accepted.

Remember:

Usually, thick letters, e-mails, and telegrams mean acceptance. Thin one-sheet letters will most likely be disappointing for you.

M - 5 :

now, you have been accepted to a few schools. Go back to the same resources that you used when you were deciding where to apply (journals, catalogs, directo- ries, professors, etc.). Ask the schools that accepted you to fly you in for a visit (many will do this).

Remember:

Don't forget non-academic factors such as location, financial aid, the atmosphere in the department, etc.

[9] Major non-academic research laboratories
AT&T Research Labs
BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
DFKI (German research center for AI)
General Electric R&D
IRST, Italy
IBM T.J. Watson Research, NY
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
MITRE
NEC Corporation
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
SRI International, Cambridge, UK
Xerox, Palo Alto, CA
XRCE, Grenoble, France

[10] What major publications exist in the field

1. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Computational Linguistics is the only publication devoted exclusively to the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. From this unique quarterly, university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence (AI) investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers get information about computational aspects of research on language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processing and performance.

Published by The MIT Press for: The Association for Computational Linguistics. URL:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=08912017

2. JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING (JNLE)

Editors:

Dr B. K. Boguraev, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA Professor Roberto Garigliano, University of Durham, UK Dr John I. Tait, University of Sunderland, UK

Published: March, June, September and December. ISSN:1351-3249.

Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of computerised language processing, whether from the perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of topics – from text analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal interfaces – the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community

3. COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE (CS&L)

Editors: Prof. S.J. Young & Dr. S.E. Levinson

Send manuscripts (worldwide apart from the Americas) to:

Prof. Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, England.

Email: sjy@eng.cam.ac.uk

Send manuscripts (from the Americas) to:

Dr. Steve Levinson,
Head Linguistics Reseach,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave.,
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974. USA.

Email: sel@research.att.com

US Subscription rates are $170, with a personal rate of $75.

CS&L is published 4 times per year.

The address for subscription orders is:

Harcourt Brace and Company Limited,
High Street, Foots Cray,
Sidcup, Kent, DA14 SHP. England.

4. MACHINE TRANSLATION

Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0922-6567.
Subscriptions: Institutions $141 plus $16 postage; Individuals $55 (members of ACL $46).

Kluwer Academic Publishers,
PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
The Netherlands,

Kluwer Academic Publishers,
PO Box 358, Accord Station,
Hingham, MA 02018-0358.

5. SPEECH TECHNOLOGY

Published quarterly, since 1981. Media Dimensions, New York, NY, USA

6. NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY (NALA)

Published quarterly. ISSN 0167-806X
Subscriptions: Individual $59,-/Dfl.156,-; Institutional $200,-/Dfl.383,- including p&h.

Kluwer Academic Publishers
Order Dept, Box 358,
Accord Station,
Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Phone
(617) 871-6600; Fax (617) 871-6528;

E-mail: Kluwer@world.std.com

Other:

Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O.Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
The Netherlands.
Phone (31) 78 524400;
Fax (31) 78 183273;
Telex: kadc nl;

E-mail: vanderLinden@wkap.nl

7. MIND AND LANGUAGE

Editors: Cotheart, Davies, Guttenplan, Harris, Humphreys, Leslie, Smith, Wilson.

4 times annually

Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK.

8. JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION

Editor: Peter Gardenfors

[11] Bibliographies

NLP/CL:

For information on a fairly complete bibliography of computational linguistics and natural language processing work from the 1980s, send mail to...

clbib@csli.stanford.edu

...with the subject HELP.

The CSLI linguistics bibliography contains 3,300 entries in bib/tib/refer format. The bibliography is heavily slanted towards phonetics and phonology but also includes a fair amount of computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics. The bibliography can be used with James Alexander's tib bibliography system, which is available from minos.inria.fr [128.93.39.5] among other places. The bibliography itself is available by anonymous ftp from...

csli.stanford.edu:/pub/bibliography/

Contributions are welcome, but should be in tib format. For more information, contact Andras Kornai...

kornai@csli.stanford.edu

NLG:

Robert Dale's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is available by anonymous ftp from scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk:/pub/nlg/ [129.215.144.3] Note that it is formatted for A4 paper. Stick in a line

.94 .94 scale

after the %! line to print on 8.5 x 11 paper. For further information, write to Robert Dale, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland, or

R.Dale@edinburgh.ac.uk

rdale@microsoft.com

Mark Kantrowitz's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is available by anonymous ftp from

ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/nlp/nlg/bib/mk/ [128.2.206.173]

In addition to the tech report, the BibTeX file containing the bibliography is also available. The bibliography contains more than 1,200 entries. A searchable index to the bibliography is available via the URL

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/nlg.html

Additions and corrections should be sent to mkant@cs.cmu.edu.

[12] Electronic mailing lists



(This section is out of date - should be fixed for next release.)

Information Retrieval:
   irlist 

Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (moderated):
   nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (formerly nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu)
   Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.ai.nlang-know-rep.

Natural Language Generation:
   siggen@black.bgu.ac.il

LFG (Lexical-Functional Grammar):
      http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lfg.html

Parsing:
   sigparse@cs.cmu.edu

Statistics, Natural Language, and Computing:
   empiricists@csli.stanford.edu

Colibri (weekly update on Conferences, Seminars, Jobs and Shareware in
NLP and speech)
   colibri-request@let.ruu.nl

Dependency Grammar
   dg@ai.uga.edu

Prosody:
   listserv@purccvm.bitnet

TEI:
   tei-l

Text Analysis and Natural Language Applications:
   SCHOLAR@CUNYVM.BITNET

Text Corpora:
   corpora-request@nora.hd.uib.no

Speech production and perception:
   foNETiks 

LN:
   ln@frmop11.bitnet

Linguist:
   linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu

ELSNET:
   elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

Eastern (European) Language Engineering list:
   to join, send mail to poul_andersen@eurokom.ie

Preprint archive mailing list

  For further information about (among other topics) submission of papers to
  the server, subscribing or canceling your subscription, requesting full
  text of any of the papers above, retrieving macro files for these papers,
  searching past listings, or submitting comments to the server operators,
  send a message:
     To: CMP-LG@XXX.LANL.GOV
     Subject: help

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[13] Newsgroups

alt.usage.english          English grammar, word usages, and related
                           topics.
comp.ai.nat-lang           Natural language processing by computers.
comp.ai.nlang-know-rep     Natural Language and Knowledge Representation.
                           (Moderated)
comp.speech                Research & applications in speech science &
                           technology.
sci.lang                   Natural languages, communication, etc.
alt.etext                  Electronic texts.
comp.text.sgml             ISO 8879 SGML structured documents markup
                           languages
comp.theory.info-retrieval Information Retrieval topics. (Moderated)
comp.ai.doc-analysis.misc  General document understanding technologies
comp.internet.library      Discussing electronic libraries. (Moderated)

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[14] Professional Organizations, Associations

ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL)
Membership in the Association for Computational Linguistics is for the
calendar year, regardless of when dues are paid. Membership includes a
full year of the ACL journal, Computational Linguistics, reduced
registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, and discounts on
ACL-sponsored publications. Payments for membership dues, fund
donations, back issues, and proceedings may be made in Europe or the
USA.

URL: URL: http://www.aclweb.org


(The rest of this section is not up to date - should be fixed for next
release):

ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS (AMTA)
655 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20005
Membership: $40 Associate members, $65 active members, Institutional $200,
Corporate $400. Members receive the MT News International and the
MT Yellow Pages.

SIGNLL is the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
(language acquisition and related topics). To join, send mail to
walter.daelemans@kub.nl or use the forms on the SIGNLL home page. For
more information, see the SIGNLL home page at the URL
      http://www.cs.rulimburg.nl/~antal/signll/signll-home.html

COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
Membership: $50 individuals, $25 student. Add $15 overseas postage.
Members receive a copy of the journal Cognitive Science without
additional charge. Write to Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer,
Cognitive Science Society, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 3939
O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, fax 1-412-624-9149, email
al+@pitt.edu.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI)
AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
phone 415-328-3123, fax 415-328-4457, info@aaai.org, membership@aaai.org,
Membership includes AI Magazine, and the AI Directory:
$50 regular, $20 student, $75 institution/library (US/Canadian)
$75 regular, $45 student, $100 institution/library (Foreign)
AAAI has several special interest groups (SIGs) on medicine,
manufacturing, business, and law. (Add $10/year for each subgroup.)
Life memberships $700 (US/Canadian), $1000 (Foreign)

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[15] Upcoming Conferences

2000
          The 2000 ACL Applied Natural Language Processing
          Conference will be organized jointly with the first North
          American CL Conference. The joint NAACL-ANLP'00 conference
          will be held in the Spring of 2000.
	  URL: 	  URL: http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000

          Coling 2000 will be held in Luxembourg, Saarbruecken, and
          Nancy in August.

          ACL 2000 will be organized in Hong Kong in October.

2001
          ACL 2001 will be held jointly with EACL 2001. The site has
          not been announced yet but will obviously be in Europe.

2002
          Coling 2002 will be in Taipei, Taiwan.
          The site for ACL 2002 will be announced in 2001.

For an updated list, check:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/newacl/conferences.html

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[16] Evaluation Competitions

TREC - DARPA Text Retrieval Conference
Information retrieval using NLP/statistical techniques.
http://trec.nist.gov

NIST Spoken Language Technology Evaluations
http://www.nist.gov/speech/test.htm

MUC - DARPA Message Understanding Conference

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 [18] How to obtain files by anonymous ftp

A: There are many ways. The most common way, however, is using a local ftp
   client.

   Suppose you want to get the file /pub/editors/webster.tar.Z
   from ftp.uu.net

   Here is a sample session. You type in whatever is underlined here.

      $ftp ftp.uu.net
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Connected to ftp.uu.net.
      220 ftp.UU.NET FTP server Thu Apr 14 15:45:10 EDT 1994) ready.
      Name (ftp.uu.net:radev): anonymous
                               ^^^^^^^^^

      331 Password required for  anonymous.
      Password: radev@cs.columbia.edu
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  (put your email address here)

      230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
      ftp> cd pub/editors
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      ftp> binary
           ^^^^^^
      ftp> get webster.tar.Z
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      200 PORT command successful.
      150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for webster.tar.Z (148579 bytes).
      226 Transfer complete.
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[19] FTP repositories

(This section is out of date).

19.1. Consortium for Lexical Research (CRL)

  The Consortium for Lexical Research is designed to serve as a
  repository for software and resources of importance to the natural
  language processing research community. Sharable resources, and the
  task of centralizing lexical data and tools, are of foremost
  concern in lexical research and computational linguistics It
  is our objective to help alleviate the repeated recreation of
  basic software tools, and to assist in making essential data
  sources more generally available.

  CLR maintains a public ftp site, and a separate library of
  materials only for members of CLR. Currently CLR has about 60
  members, mostly academic institutions, and almost every major
  natural language processing center in the U.S. belongs. Access to
  the members-only materials is strictly regulated by password and
  userid.

  Our catalog of current holdings is available by using anonymous
  ftp to clr.nmsu.edu

19.2. Oxford Text Archive (OTA)

  ftp ota.ox.ac.uk
  ota/textarchive.list         the current catalogue

  There are two classes of texts available from this FTP server:

  (a) texts which are in TEI format and which we can make freely
      available (these all appear as category P texts in the shortlist)

  (b) texts which are available only under our standard conditions of
      use, (these all appear as category U or A in the shortlist)

19.3. University of Michigan Linguistics Archive (UMICH)

  ftp linguistics.archive.umich.edu
  /linguistics
  moderator: John Lawler (jlawler@umich.edu)

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[20] What are some important books in NLP

Textbooks:

   Allen, James F., "Natural Language Understanding", The
   Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, California,
   (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts).

   Manning, C. and Schuetze, H. Foundations of Statistical Natural
   Language Processing. Hardcover - 680 pages (July 1999)
   MIT Press; ISBN: 0262133601
      http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/fsnlp/promo/

   Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J. Speech and Language Processing.
      http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp.html

   Gazdar, G. and Mellish, C., "Natural Language Processing in Lisp:
   An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley,
   Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions
   of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Pop-11.)

   Michael A. Covington, "Natural Language Processing for Prolog
   Programmers", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994. ISBN
   0-13-629213-5.

General:

   Rustin, Randall (ed.) "Natural Language Processing", Algorithmics Press,
   New York, NY, 1973.

   Schank, Roger C., and Colby, Kenneth M. (eds.) "Computer Models of Thought
   and Language", W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1973, 454 pp.

   Charniak, Eugene and Wilks, Yorick A. (eds.) "Computational Semantics",
   North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1976, 294 pp.

   Metzing, Dieter (ed.) "Frame Conceptions and Text Understanding",
   De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, 1980, 167 pp.

   Tennant, Harry R., "Natural Language Processing", Petrocelli Books, New
   York, NY, 1981.

   Lehnert,  Wendy G., and Ringle, Martin H. (eds.) "Strategies for Natural

   Language Processing", Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1982,
   533 pp.

   King, Margaret (ed.) "Parsing Natural Language", Academic Press,
   London, England, 1983, 308 pp.

   Grosz, Barbara J., Sparck-Jones, Karen, and Webber, Bonnie L., eds.
   "Readings in Natural Language Processing", Morgan Kaufmann
   Publishers, Los Altos, CA, 1986, 664 pages. ISBN 0-934613-11-7, $44.95.

   Robert C. Berwick, "Computational Linguistics", MIT Press,
   Cambridge, MA, 1989, ISBN 0262-02266-4.

   Brady, Michael, and Berwick, Robert C., eds. "Computational Models
   of Discourse", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.

   Ralph Grishman, "Computational Linguistics: An Introduction",
   Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986, 193 pages.

   Terry Winograd, "Language as a Cognitive Process", Addison-Wesley,
   Reading, MA, 1983.

   Schank, R. and Abelson, R.  "Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding,"
   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1977.

Terminology:

   David Crystal, "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics", 3rd Edition,
   Basil Blackwell Publishers, New York, 1991.

Parsing:

   Tomita, M. (Editor), "Current Issues in Parsing Technology",
   Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1991.

   Marcus, M.  "A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language,"
   The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980.

   Pereira, F. and Sheiber, S.  "Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis,"
   Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987.

Probabilistic Parsing:

   Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalised Probabilistic LR Parsing of
   Natural Language (Corpora) with Unification-based Grammars",
   University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical Report Number
   224, 1991.

   Zhi Biao Wu, Loke Soo Hsu, and Chew Lim Tan, "A Survey of Statistical
   Approaches to Natural Language Processing", Technical report TRA4/92,
   Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National
   University of Singapore, 1992

Natural Language Understanding:

   Dyer, M.  "In-Depth Understanding:  A Computer Model of Integrated
   Processing for Narrative Comprehension,"  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.

   Aravind Joshi, Bonnie Webber and Ivan Sag, eds. "Elements of Discourse
   Understanding", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1981.

   Cohen, P. R., Morgan, J. and Pollack, M., editors, "Intentions in
   Communication", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.

Natural Language Interfaces:

   Raymond C. Perrault and Barbara J. Grosz, "Natural Language
   Interfaces", Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 1, J.F. Traub,
   editor, pages 435-452, Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1986.

Natural Language Generation:

   McKeown, Kathleen R. and Swartout, William R., "Language
   Generation and Explanation", in Zock, M. and Sabah, G.,
   editors, Advances in Natural Language Generation, Volume 1, Pages
   1-51, Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, NJ, 1988. (Overview of
   the state of the art in natural language generation.)

   Mann, W. & S. Thompson. Rhetorical Structure Theory: a theory of
   text organization.

Speech:

   Ronnie W. Smith and D. Richard Hipp, "Spoken Natural Language
   Dialog Systems: A Practical Approach", Oxford University Press,
   ISBN #0-19-509187-6

   John Allen, Sharon Hunnicut and Dennis H. Klatt, "From Text to Speech:
   The MITalk System", Cambridge University Press, 1987. [Synthesis,
   precursor of DECtalk.]

   Frank Fallside and William A. Woods (editors), "Computer Speech Processing"
   Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.

   X. D. Huang, Y. Ariki and M. A. Jack, "Hidden Markov Models for Speech
   Recognition", Edinburgh University Press, 1990. [Analysis]

   A. Nejat Ince (editor), "Digital Speech Processing: Speech Coding,
   Synthesis, and Recognition", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,
   1992. [Analysis and Synthesis]

   Kai-Fu Lee, "Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the
   SPHINX System", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1989. [Analysis]

   Douglas O'Shaughnessy, "Speech Communication: Human and Machine"
   Addison-Wesley, MA, 1987. [Analysis and Synthesis]

   Lawrence R. Rabiner and Ronald W. Schafer, "Digital Processing of
   Speech Signals", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978.
   [Analysis and Synthesis]

   Lawrence R. Rabiner and Biing-Hwang Juang, "Fundamentals of Speech
   Recognition", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.
   ISBN 0-13-015157-2. [Analysis]

   Ronald W. Schafer and John D. Markel (editors), "Speech Analysis",
   IEEE Press, New York, 1979. [Analysis]

   Alex Waibel and Kai-Fu Lee (editors), "Readings in Speech Recognition"
   Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1990, 680 pages.
   ISBN 1-55860-124-4, $49.95. [Analysis]

   Alex Waibel, "Prosody and Speech Recognition", Morgan Kaufmann
   Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988. [Analysis]

Machine Translation:

   W. John Hutchins and Harold L. Somers, "An Introduction to Machine
   Translation", Academic Press, San Diego, 1992. 362 pages, ISBN
   0-123-62830-X.

   Bonnie J. Dorr, "Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon" MIT
   Press, Cambridge, MA 1993. 432 pages, ISBN 0-262-04138-3.

   Kenneth Goodman and Sergei Nirenburg., editors, "The KBMT Project: A
   Case Study in Knowledge-Based Machine Translation", Morgan Kaufmann
   Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1991. 331 pages, ISBN 1-558-60129-5, $34.95.

   Arnold, D.J.; Balkan, L.; Lee Humphreys, R.; Meijer, S.; and Sadler, L.
   (1994). Machine Translation: An Introductory Guide. NCC Blackwell.

   The journal "Machine Translation" is the principle forum for
   current research.

   A review of MT systems on the market appeared in BYTE 18(1), January 1993.

Reversible Grammars:

   Tomek Strzalkowski, editor, "Reversible Grammar in Natural Language
   Processing", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

   Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Reversible Grammar in Natural
   Language Processing, UC Berkeley, 1991. (See especially Remi
   Zajac's paper.)

Statistical Processing:

   Eugene Charniak, "Statistical Language Learning", MIT Press, Cambridge,
   Massachusetts, 1993, 170 pages.

Categorial Grammar (CG):

   M. Moortgat, "Categorial Investigations. Logical and Linguistic
   Aspects of the Lambek Calculus", Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in
   Semantics:9, Foris, Dordrecht, Holland, 1988.

   Richard T. Oehrle, Emmon Bach and Deirdre Wheeler, "Categorial
   Grammars and Natural Language Structures", Studies in Linguistics
   and Philosophy:32, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1988.

   Mary McGee Wood, "Categorial Grammars", Linguistic Theory Guides,
   Routledge, London, 1993.

Dependency Grammar:

   Igor' Aleksandrovich Mel'cuk, "Dependency syntax : theory and
   practice", State University Press of New York, 1987.


Functional Grammar (aka Systemic Grammar):

   Michael A. K. Halliday, "An Introduction to Functional Grammar",
   Edward Arnold, London, 1985.

   Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG):

   Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag,
   "Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar", Oxford:Blackwell, 1985.

Government and Binding (GB):

   Noam Chomsky, Lectures on government and binding, Foris Publications
   1981.

   Vivian J. Cook, "Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction", Basil
   Blackwell Publisher, New York, 1988, 201 pages.

   Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, "An Introduction to Language",
   Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 4th edition, 1988, 474 pages.

   Liliane M.V. Haegeman, "Introduction to Government and Binding
   Theory", Basil Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1991, 618 pages.

   Geoffrey C. Horrocks, "Generative Grammar", Longman, London, 1987,
   339 pages.

   Andrew Radford, "Transformational Grammar: A First Course",
   Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, 625 pages.

   Stabler, E.P. (1992). The Logical Approach to Syntax. Cambridge,
   Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992.

Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG):

   Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag, "Information-based Syntax and Semantics",
   Stanford:CSLI, University of Chicago Press, 1987.

   Pollard, Carl and Ivan A. Sag. 1994. Head-Driven Phrase Structure
   Grammar.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Stanford: CSLI
   Publications.

Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG):

   Joan Bresnan (ed.), "The Mental Representation of Grammatical
   Relations", Cambridge:MA, MIT Press, 1982.

   Dalrymple, Kaplan, Maxwell & Zaenen, eds. (1995) `Formal Issues in
   Lexical-Functional Grammar', CSLI Publications, Stanford CA
   (distributed by Cambridge University Press)


Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG):

   A. Joshi, L. Levy and M. Takahasihi, "Tree Adjunct Grammars"
   In: Journal of Computer and System Sciences 10:136-63, 1975.

   A. Joshi, "An Introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammars"
   In: Alexis Manaster-Ramer (ed.), "The Mathematics of Language",
   Benjamins, Philadelphia, 1987.

Cognitive Grammar:

   Ronald W. Langacker, "Foundations of cognitive grammar" Stanford
   University Press, 1987.

Programming for NLP:

   Pereira, Fernando C.N. and Shieber, Stuart  "Prolog and Natural-Language
   Analysis," Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA
   1987, 264 pp.

   Gazdar, Gerald and Mellish, Christopher S., "Natural Language Processing in
   Lisp: An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley,
   Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions
   of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Pop-11.)

   Michael A. Covington, "Natural Language Processing for Prolog
   Programmers", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994. ISBN
   0-13-629213-5.

   Peter Norvig. Paradigms of AI Programming

Bibliographies:

   Gazdar, Gerald, Alex Franz, Karen Osborne, and Roger Evans (1987).
   "Natural Language Processing in the 1980s: A Bibliography",  Center for
   the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) lecture notes no. 12, CSLI,
   Stanford, CA, 240 pp.

Computational Morphology

   Richard Sproat, Morphology and Computation, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992.

   Graeme D. Ritchie, Graham J. Russell, Allan W. Black, Stephen G. Pulman,
   Computational Morphology, MIT Press, Cambridge/London, 1992.

Miscellaneous:

   Austin, J.L. How to do things with words.

   Searle, J.   Speech acts.

   Levinson, S. Pragmatics.

   Ross, Don, and Dan Brink (eds.) (1994) "Research in Humanities Computing 3:
   Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Tempe, Arizona, March 1991,"
   Clarendon Press, Oxford, England.

   Gazdar, Gerald, Franz, Alex, Osborne, Karen, and Evans, Roger,
   "Natural Language Processing in the 1980s: A Bibliography",
   Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) lecture notes
   no. 12, CSLI, Stanford, CA, 1987, 240 pp.

   _The Mulltilingual PC Directory_. By Ian Tresman. 254pp.
   Stamford CT: Knowledge Computing Ltd.

   Stefan Wermter, Hybrid connectionist natural language processing
   Chapman & Hall Inc, 1995.

   Connectionist approaches to natural language processing.
   Edited by Ronan G. Reilly and Noel E. Sharky.
   Earlsdale, 1992 ISBN 0-86377-179-3

   _Natural Language Processing_.  Ed. Fernando C.N. Pereira and
   Barbara J. Grosz. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, MA, and London:
   The MIT Press, 1994. Rptd from _Artificial Intelligence: An
   International Journal_, Volume 63, Numbers 1-2 (1993).

   _Research in Humanities Computing 1: Selected Papers
   from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Toronto, June 1989_.
   Ed. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

   Peter D. Smith, _An Introduction to Text Processing_.
   Cambridge MA and London: The MIT Press, 1990.
   ISBN 0-262-19299-3.

   Computer processing of natural language
   Author Gilbert K Krulee
   published Prentice Hall
   ISBN 0-13-610299-3

   Sadock, J.   Toward a linguistic theory of speech acts.

   Vanderveken, D. & J. Searle. Meaning and speech acts. (2 vols.)

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 [21] Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence

                   A GUIDE TO COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ARTICLES IN
               THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2nd Edition

                  Stuart C. Shapiro (editor) (John Wiley & Sons, 1992)

                                    compiled by:

                                William J. Rapaport

                           Department of Computer Science
                          and Center for Cognitive Science
                       State University of New York at Buffalo
                                 Buffalo, NY 14260
                              rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu

AUTHOR                          TITLE                                     PAGES

                               Volume 1:

Bookman, L. A.,
  & Alterman, R.       Analog Semantic Features                           27-28
Alvarado, S. J.        Argument Comprehension                             30-52
Kucera, H.             Brown Corpus                                     128-130
Srihari, S. N.,
  & Hull, J. J.        Character Recognition                            138-150
Ballard, B.,
  & Jones, M.          Computational Linguistics                        203-224
Hardt, S. L.           Conceptual Dependency                            259-265
Hindle, D.             Deep Structure                                   328-330
Ingria, R.;
  Boguraev, B.;
  & Pustejovsky,J.     Dictionary/Lexicon                               341-365
Scha, R.;
  Bruce, B. C.;
  & Polanyi,L.         Discourse Understanding                          365-379
Tennant, H.            Ellipsis                                         445-446
Novak, V.              Fuzzy Logic: Applications to Natural Language    515-521
Woods, W. A.           Grammar, Augmented Transition Network            552-563
Bruce, B.,
  & Moser, M. G.       Grammar, Case                                    563-570
Gazdar, G.             Grammar, Generalized Phrase Structure            570-573
Joshi, A. K.           Grammar, Phrase Structure                        573-580
Burton, R.             Grammar, Semantic                                580-583
Bateman, J. A.         Grammar, Systemic                                583-592
Mallery, J. C.;
  Hurwitz, R.;
  & Duffy,G.           Hermeneutics                                     596-611
Hill, J. C.            Language Acquisition                             761-772
Fass, D.,
  & Pustejovsky, J.    Lexical Decomposition                            806-812
Pustejovsky, J.        Lexical Semantics                                812-819

                               Volume 2:

Nagao, M.              Machine Translation                              898-902
Klavans, J. L.,
  & Tzoukermann, E.    Morphology                                       963-972
McDonald, D. D.        Natural-Language Generation                      983-997
Carbonell, J. G.,
  & Hayes, P. J.       Natural-Language Understanding                  997-1016
Petrick, S.            Parsing                                        1099-1109
Small, S. L.           Parsing, Word-Expert                           1109-1116
Wilks, Y.,
  & Fass, D.           Preference Semantics                           1183-1194
Cruse, D. A.           Presupposition                                 1194-1201
Dyer, M. G.;
  Cullingford, R. E.;
  & Alvarado, S. J.    Scripts                                        1443-1460
Sowa, J. F.            Semantic Networks                              1493-1511
Devlin, K. J.          Situation Theory and Situation Semantics       1541-1547
Briscoe, E. J.         Speech Recognition                             1553-1559
Norvig, P.             Story Analysis                                 1568-1576
Alterman, R.           Text Summarization                             1579-1587
Sparck Jones, K.       Thesaurus                                      1605-1613
Knight, K.             Unification                                    1630-1636

                  Additional articles from the 1st edition (1987):

Coelho, H.             Grammar, Definite Clause                         339-342
Berwick, R.            Grammar, Transformational                        353-361
Newmeyer, F. J.        Linguistics, Competence and Performance          503-508
Wilks, Y.              Machine Translation                              564-571
Tennant, H.            Menu-Based Natural Language                      594-597
Koskenniemi, K.        Morphology                                       619-620
Bates, M.              Natural-Language Interfaces                      655-660
Riesbeck, C. K.        Parsing, Expectation-Driven                      696-701
Keyser, S. J.          Phonemes                                         744-746
Webber, B.             Question Answering                               814-822
Smith, B. C.           Self-Reference                                 1005-1010
Hirst, G.              Semantics                                      1024-1029
Woods, W.              Semantics, Procedural                          1029-1031
Allen, J. F.           Speech Acts                                    1062-1065
Allen, J.              Speech Recognition                             1065-1070
Allen, J.              Speech Synthesis                               1070-1076
Briscoe, E. J.         Speech Understanding                           1076-1083
Lehnert, W. G.         Story Analysis                                 1090-1099

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[22] Machine Translation

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[23] What are the major accomplishments of the field

Note: This section is in a very preliminary stage.

      Overall:

Chomsky (1957) Syntactic Structures
Weizenbaum (1966), ELIZA
Woods (1967), Procedural semantics
Thorne et al. and Woods (1968-70), ATNs
Winograd (1970), Shrdlu
Colby, Weber & Hilf, 1971; Colby, 1975, PARRY
Wilks (1972), Preference semantics
Woods et al. (1972), LSNLIS / Lunar
Charniak (1972), Frames and demons
Wilks (1973), Stanford machine translation project
Montague (1973) IL semantics (Montague Grammar) in PTQ
Grosz (1977), Focus in task-oriented dialogues
Marcus (1977), Deterministic parsing
Davey (1978)
Cohen, Phil (1979), Planning speech acts
Allen (1980), Understanding speech acts
McDonald (1980), MUMBLE
Heim/Kamp (1981) Discourse Representation Theory
McKeown (1982), TEXT
Appelt (1982), KAMP (Integration of Functional Grammar with Discourse Plans)
Shieber (1984) Noncontextfreeness of NL syntax proven
Pollack (1986), Plan inference
Mann & Thompson (1987), Rhetorical Structure Theory

      Conceptual Dependency:

Schank (1969), Conceptual Dependency
Schank, Riesbeck, Rieger, Goldman (1975), MARGIE
Cullingford (1979), SAM
Wilensky (1979), PAM
DeJong (1980), FRUMP
Lebowitz (1980), IPP
Dyer (1982), BORIS
Lytinen (1986), MOPTRANS
Hovy (1986), PAULINE
Ram (1989), AQUA
Dehn (1989), AUTHOR/STARSHIP
Martin (1986) Direct Memory Access Parsing (DMAP)
Fitzgerald (1995) Indexed Concept Parsing

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[24] Publishers

24.1. MIT Press
            http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/

24.2. Elsevier
            http://www.elsevier.nl/

24.3. Kluwer
            http://www.wkap.nl

24.4. Addison Wesley
            http://www.aw.com/

24.5. Cambridge University Press
            http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/

24.6. CSLI, Stanford
            http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/

24.7. Springer Verlag
            http://www.springer.de/

24.8. University of Chicago Press
            http://www.press.uchicago.edu/

24.9. Academic Press
            http://www.apnet.com/



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[25] Credits

Large parts of the answers to Q. 10, 11, 14, and 20 come from Mark
Kantrowitz's comp.ai FAQ. Q.2 is due to Hans Uszkoreit, Q.21 comes from
William Rapaport and Stuart Shapiro. Jan Daciuk compiled most of Q. 24.

 Partial list of contributors (in alphabetical order):

    Avery Andrews            andaling@pretty.anu.edu.au
    Paul Buitelaar           paulb@zag.cs.brandeis.edu
    Charles Brendan Callaway theorist@cs.utexas.edu
    Russell Collingham       R.J.Collingham@durham.ac.uk
    Jan Daciuk               jandac@pg.gda.pl
    Robert Dale              rdale@microsoft.com
    Mary Dalrymple           dalrymple@parc.xerox.com
    Barbara di Eugenio       dieugeni@linc.cis.upenn.edu
    Dan Fass                 fass@cs.sfu.ca
    John Fry                 fry@Prosit.Stanford.EDU
    Joshua Goodman           goodman@das.harvard.edu
    Malcolm Grandis          Malcolm@celtic.demon.co.uk
    Graeme Hirst             gh@cs.toronto.ca
    Mark Kantrowitz          mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu
    Stefan Langer            slanger@mic.dundee.ac.uk
    Alberto Lavelli          lavelli@irst.it
    John McNaught            jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk
    David Pautler            david-pautler@usa.net
    Fred Popowich            popowich@cs.sfu.ca
    Ashwin Ram               ashwin@cc.gatech.edu
    Daniel Radzinski         dr@tovna.co.il
    William J. Rapaport      rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu
    David Reitter            dr1@gmx.de
    JRice                    jrice@texterity.com
    Hinrich Schuetze         schuetze@Sante.Stanford.EDU
    Stuart Shapiro           shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu
    Jakob Sommer             jakob@isp.his.se
    Kevin Thomas             kevint@cdplus.com
    R. M. Thomas             rmthomas@sciolus.cistron.nl
    Hans Uszkoreit           uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de
    Gertjan van Noord        vannoord@let.rug.nl
    Carl Vogel               Carl.Vogel@cs.tcd.ie>
    Phil Woodland            pcw@eng.cam.ac.uk